Job summary
- Main area
- Phlebotomist
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes Weekends.)
- Job ref
- 153-SP04555
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £24,169 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Phlebotomist - Poole Hospital
Band 2
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Do you have the skills and personality to join our phlebotomy team?
University Hospital Dorset- Poole site have an opening for Phlebotomists.
Do you have good literacy, numeracy and communication skills? Will you be able to work within a team and under your own initiative in this busy service?
This role is physically demanding, requiring you to have great attention to detail and accuracy when performing venepuncture. Are you looking for a career and are you passionate about patient care? Then this is the role for you.
Inexperienced applicants will be considered providing a venepuncture course has been completed prior to interview.
The service operates between 07.00-16.30 Monday to Friday; 7.00-12.00 Saturday and Sunday and includes bank holidays.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date:
Main duties of the job
- To carry out duties / responsibilities in accordance with the Trust and Directorate Policies, Protocols including Health and Safety Policies.
- To greet patients in a courteous and professional manner.
- To check the relevant details of patients requiring Pathology tests, resolving and outstanding difficulties.
- Obtain by venepuncture or capillary sampling the correct blood specimens(s).
- Ensure samples are correctly labelled, put into the correct containers and otherwise properly treated so as to be suitable for the analyses requested.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how
we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the
New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous phlebotomy experience within a patient setting.
Desirable criteria
- 1 year’s phlebotomy experience
- Completed a venepuncture course
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good general education
- Must be numerate and literate with a good command of spoken and written English
Desirable criteria
- College or university qualifications.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claudette Brady
- Job title
- Phlebotomy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 3448
- Additional information
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